skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Betteridge's Law of Headlines applies to this article.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridges_Law_of_Headlines
>it may be interpreted as copyright violation //

This hinges on the "first sale" doctrine and what's called "exhaustion of rights". The idea is that once you've sold an object under copyright you've exhausted (ended) your financial rights to that object and so it can be resold, lent, etc. without your permission.

IMO an attempt to create a regional sale restriction to overload copyright should be treated with contempt and the copyright should be rescinded. Copyright is [supposedly] granted by the state on behalf of the citizens/subjects afterall; such attempts to extend the rightsholders rights at the expense of the public should be limited.

IIRC cases of this kind in the UK have been challenged under trademark law, where selling of "grey imports" of Levi jeans - for example - have been prevented as the producers (or their local agents) have argued successfully for trademark violation / passing-off.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_import

Parallel imports are like off-shoring for consumers.
That's actually from the Well dating back at least to the 1990s.
A better way of doing this is to create a filter that forwards everything to your personal Gmail, then create another filter in your personal Gmail account to label it.
> The best programmers use either Emacs or vim.

No, only the programmers that you know. One thing that makes a programmer great is that they will always pick the best tool for the job, not the tool that they are used to.

The point here is not that Eclipse or XCode is better than vim, it's that no matter how productive you are writing Java or Objective C with vim, you will be more productive using Eclipse or XCode.
Is that the same as marking things "Not Spam"? As in, does it lower the quality of Gmail's spam filter?
Is their any way to use that without commiting a federal crime?
Only if you spent enough time on that page to read its contents.
"It might actually cause a political uprising."

And the guns for the revolution would be sold, used, at garage sales.
Ask HN: Just bought my first Mac. What should I know?
Today is the first time I get to touch a MacOSX machine, on top of that I get to do it on a wonderful newly purchased Macbook Air. This after using Linux for the past 10 years. The world is shining with glowish colors of joy today.

What should I know, both practical and ethical/cultural about my newly chosen eco/techo system?
Scientists confirm there is an inherited element to creativity
Measure results, not hours
prt scrn = shift+command+3
> saying that if the admin is unattractive then it's not a good VC.

That's now what he said though. He just mentioned his observation that not so good VCs have less good-looking admins. Correlation != causation yada yada.
That is a very interesting thing especially considering that one would assume that a western 'flesh searcher' would live in a country where political dissent is not punishable by disappearing.
The article is greatly exaggerating the potential scope of this. The underlying case involved reselling books that were imported without authorization of the copyright holder. When you buy an iPhone, it was NOT imported without authorization of the copyright holder. That's a huge difference.
Could you enlighten the audience as to what you believe it says, rather than snarkily just dismissing the reporting as wrong?
This is a crap link, and as such doesn't belong on HN at all.

http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

"Essentially there are two rules here: don't post or upvote crap links, and don't be rude or dumb in comment threads."

Several helpful comments have already pointed out that the press release submitted here is full of wrong factual statements. Moreover, it is old and thus now "news." I have flagged it, which is all anyone can do about a crap submission in the absence of being able to downvote submitted articles.
I think people are slowly waking up to the idiocy of having an online "identity" that matches their real world one. If anything there will be a trend away from these spy networks as more people switch on to their purpose.
To print screen using a selector, CMD + Ctrl + Shift + 4
Here's one from Google: http://www.howtogomo.com/
Hmm, the site says we're still 23 hrs from launch so perhaps they meant "tomorrow" in the headline. Aka "Sunday"
Agreed. It feels like I have to get a book to really really learn MVC.

Documentation is one area where it feels like an open source approach is the way to go. Get the community to contribute, along with MS, to a single well-defined structured document.
No, they didn't even do that.

What they did, in a nutshell, is show strong evidence that the adult visual cortex can be trained. There's a lot of discussion about "induction" here, but the only intervention here was presenting them with images.

The experiment goes like this (as far as I can tell):

1. Have a bunch of subjects perform a multiple choice visual identification task and scan their visual cortex with an fMRI while they do it.

2. Build a statistical model that lets you predict, based on an fMRI, which of the three answers the respondent gave.

3. Have the subjects do more of the same kind of test, repeatedly, but without answering; just have them stare for six seconds. Use the statistical model to classify which answer they would give, and show them a circle that gets larger depending on how strongly the model classifies the answer as correct. Ask subjects to maximize the size of this circle without telling them what it means.

4. Repeat step 1 and measure the change in accuracy.

What did they find? The subjects improved at the task, even though they didn't know what they were supposed to be doing.

Incredibly cool, and completely unrelated to "direct to brain" learning.
The worst part is that they're not admitting it's even an issue: http://twitter.com/therumble2012

Update: Looks like they finally fessed up.
Name one (legitimate) business that doesn't rely on government enforcement at some point. If you think about it, you'll find that even subway buskers can operate with the confidence that their hat full of quarters and singles won't get stolen from under their noses. Stores everywhere allow prospective customers everywhere free, direct, and anonymous access to merchandise, confident that if any prove to be thieves, they can delivered into the hands of people with the legal right to inflict serious damage on their life prospects.

Given that not everyone is good, you'll find that "giving people (in general) a reason to buy" comes down to carrots for most and sticks for some. If you fail to get that balance right, your losses will drive you out of business.

Of course, society can't tolerate merchants who hunt down, attack, torture, maim, or kill transgressors. Nor can it tolerate the existence of crime syndicates that will handle this dirty work for a price (offered willingly or otherwise). So we've come to a pretty good arrangement where the labor involved in "giving people a reason to buy" gets divided between the private businessperson, who focuses on carrots like a more competitive product / service / price, and the State, which handles the stick.

Assuming that the State, in turn, remains generally accountable to the people, this arrangement works well. What doesn't work well is telling one group of producers "sorry bitches, but technology has changed and now you need to adapt" while glossing over the subtext that the "adaptation" you're referring to is the invention of a business model that's all carrots and no sticks. In a market where everyone else still gets the benefit of legal protection, this is both unique and unreasonable.

That doesn't mean IP businesses don't need to adapt at all, or that they should be given special consideration that retards the general progress of the arts and sciences. But how they do this depends largely on whether or not they receive legal support in situations where they are faced with jerks who refuse to pay.
Care to share some of your posts on the subject? I'm curious as here in Honolulu the tech scene is fairly lackluster and I wonder why Belize would be any different.
It's as boring as what HN users (I guess you are one of them as well) do against it. So do not hesitate and post something exciting.
How Greg Kroah-Hartman applies patches for the Linux stable kernel releases.
I'm the only employee of my business, but I do contract 1099s when needed. When I do, I try to get older professionals, simply because I get a more efficient bang for my buck. Far too many younger techs within a few years of entering the workforce, are too prone to the "not-invented-here" syndrome and re-invent too many wheels. Like we all were, right?

Maybe I shouldn't have been an absolutist about not being able to get an interview after 40, but the difficulty of getting one is an order of magnitude or two higher. 45-50? Even more difficult in many locations.

But my original comment's point still stands: things are not a bed of roses everywhere. Ageism exists in the field, and is probably more the norm than not. Will things get better in time? Maybe.
Lisp Machines were single-user, but networked and using servers.
I never really used a tool like it when I was on Windows or Linux but I find Alfred really useful, where I can press Alt + Space that brings up a simple dialog where I can type:

app name
find filename
open filename

Just typing an app name will allow you to open it on pressing enter. Find will reveal the file or folder in Finder. Open will open the file.

If it doesn't recognise a name or command, it'll default to giving options to search in Google and other search engines.

Another really useful feature is typing an arithmetic expression and it being calculated for, which can then be copied to keyboard by pressing enter. I use this feature a lot.

I think there are a lot of other things I could learn about Alfred myself but it's probably my most used tool! There's also a premium version with more features but I haven't looked into it much.

I know there's Quicksilver and spotlight but Alfred is much quicker and smoother for me.
I like the different adjectives for comments. Almost didn't notice that at all.
So the new question is, why? Is it genetic? Epigenetic? Memetic? This really doesn't tell us all that much: many things run in families, including things that cannot possibly be genetic in nature.
You're really stretching the point here.

First, having vending machines for hardware doesn't mean that an IT department doesn't have any say on what gets ordered to go inside.

And really, is there any measurable amount of theft by employees who get a drop of coffee on their keyboard, and either just throw it away and get a new one, or go home and sell it? And would this in any way cost more than what the company saves by streamlining the basic IT hardware procurement that goes with any large company?

Quite far-fetched scenarios you're tossing out at this point.
I can only assume he's talking about commitments to vendors or carriers, rather than customers who obviously need to discount anything they may say.
Here are a couple of my postings: http://daeken-eulogy.livejournal.com/21515.html http://daeken-eulogy.livejournal.com/21937.html http://daeken-eulogy.livejournal.com/22136.html

I need to post some new ones; I have a couple unfinished ones here. I still agree with the majority of what I wrote, but I have some new insight into the problems plaguing Belize and how they can be tackled.
Another crap press release on another crap preliminary correlational study. The method of operatinalizing "creativity" in this small-n study is highly debatable, and hardly likely to be generalizable to, say, creativity in software engineering.

See Peter Norvig's online article "Warning Signs in Experimental Design and Interpretation"

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

for a checklist of signs of faulty procedure or reasoning to look for in any report about a research study, and see the writings of Eric Turkheimer

http://people.virginia.edu/~ent3c/vita1_turkheimer.htm

or Lars Penke

http://www.larspenke.eu/en/publications.html

for thoughtful discussions of genetically sensitive designs in the study of human behavior.
Barcode birthday: 60 years since patent
"Linked List" is brilliant xD Excellent stuff!

Does anyone know if this:

22. Things I Learned Writing an HN Parody
4 points by nicholasjbs 6 minutes ago | flag | discuss

refer to the creator? Or did norswap make it?
+1 on Alfred. It's such a freakin' time-saver.

However I still miss the sexiness of Quicksilvers UI.
Vim, LaTeX and High School
Either my comment was mistunderstood (e.g. we are each referring to different caches) or I am suffering from a fundamental misunderstanding.

Let's say you have a diskless RAM-based system. Swapless.

Now you launch a large program, say firefox or some other "modern web browser". That is going to require page caching, correct? This program cannot fit into the CPU cache, specifically what the Wikipedia entry (to use a common point of reference) calls the "data cache" (cf. what it calls the "instruction cache").

Now say you launch another large program. Depending on how much main memory you have, the OS is going to have to do some decision-making. Which program (or parts thereof) need to be "immediately available"?

Now imagine you have a small program constructed from very dense code, say a few K in size, and it fits entirely within the data cache. Correct me if I'm wrong, but in that case there is no page caching or OS decision-making. The program is "immediately available" as long as it's in the data cache.

OK, now I'm sure someone will take this comment apart piece by piece. But keep in mind the general idea I am suggesting is: code density lends itself to smaller programs, smaller programs lend themselves to fitting in the data cache, and fitting entirely within the CPU's data cache lends itself to running faster in a diskless RAM-based system. If this is wrong, then you need to explain why, specifically.
A related but important case is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_S.A._v._Costco_Wholesale_....

Costco, through another company, would buy watches abroad from authorized Omega dealers at low prices. Omega, wanting to keep its prices up, sued. Omega's 9th circuit judgement was upheld 4-4 (Kagen removed herself from the judgement). A split judgement means precedent is not created, so Kirtsaeng will help determine precedent as it is a somewhat similar case. (Omega used trademark protections whereas Kirtsaeng is about copyright.)

Point being, there is a strong possibility that this case will be determined in favor of Wiley. I think OP's article exaggerates greatly the effects of such a ruling because supreme court rulings tend to be as narrow as possible. However we won't know the far reaching effects until the ruling comes.
Apple won't want products, considered by the market as inferior, to carry any association to themselves.
People should be able to find their passions without getting punched in the face
Perhaps I should write a long explanation...
As an aside, I think it's logical OR that's tricky for non technical/math types since XOR more closely matches common usage.
This is great stuff but it appears to be simply porting parts of Ruby and Rails to .NET. Why not just use the original?
MOST good engineers in the bay area cost upwards of $100/hr to employ.

I'd estimate the median to be somewhere in the range of $110-120k. So, $55-60/hr for salary alone. Now add employment taxes (even higher in SF city limits) and benefits and equity.
Homebrew - a package manager for OSX to install all those incredibly useful applications you've been using for the past 10 years.

http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/
I'd sure as hell leave in a pinch.
>>Name one (legitimate) business that doesn't rely on government enforcement at some point.

That's not what he said. It's a matter of scale. Surely every company benefits from the government at some point. But some companies have their entire business model dependent on government aid. I'm not talking about having the government as a customer, mind you. I'm talking about companies that became monopolies only because their lobbyists convinced lawmakers to protect their businesses.
It's easier for a third part with only money to cause damage to apple (which will happen in a known time period) than to cause a buff.

(an industry player could cause positive effects, like a huge purchase of Apple into a new industry like enterprise/government, or vendor neutrality for public sector purchases, or Microsoft committing to OSX as a tier-1 OS, etc., but a hedge fund can't do that)
According to Wikipedia, Waze is headquartered in Ra'anana, Israel. In Dec 2011 they had only 10 employees in Palo Alto.
I suspect they were originally angling to be a communications medium, but somewhere they decided that being a content network was a better idea.
ADEA protects older workers, not younger ones.

>The ADEA permits employers to favor older workers based on age even when doing so adversely affects a younger worker who is 40 or older.

http://www.eeoc.gov/facts/age.html
Yammer definitely does have traction. It may well be that the author didn't use Yammer at the two companies he worked at, but Microsoft wouldn't have paid a billion dollars for a company without traction.
Launch of this first commercial resupply mission (SpaceX CRS-1) to the complex is set for 8:35PM EDT Sunday, October 7 from Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.
DjangoCon US 2012 Videos
Correlation is not the same as causation, but it is highly correlated with it.
Group differences in IQ are best understood as environmental in origin (pdf)
Why does my NAS always refuse to boot the first time?
excellent read. Very thought provoking
I agree with the author on this one. It's not a language's job to solve browser fragmentation.
Waze is crowdsourced. So even if the original data comes from sources such as Tiger or OSM (which are known to be much worse than Google's), presumably data such as road vectors are continually tweaked from the driving data that the app collects. From the FAQ (http://www.waze.com/faq/):

By simply driving with the app open on your phone, you passively
contribute traffic and other road data that helps the Waze system
to provide other Waze drivers with the most optimal route to their
destination, including live traffic information. But you can also
take a more active role by reporting on accidents, police traps,
or any other hazards along the way, helping to give other users in
the area a 'heads-up' about what's to come and contributing to the
common good out there on the road.

Some of the Waze community members with a passion for maps also
take an even more active role by editing and updating the Waze
map, itself. Most of the editing work is done on the Waze website,
but some parts, such as the naming of streets, can be done through
the application directly.
Idea: Notch should use a stack machine as the basis for his new 0x10c game. (A big part of the game involves programming an in-game 16bit computer.) It'd be a great excuse for a lot of people to explore this architecture.
There's a place for that kind of online network. There's also a place for random usernames like radnation. There are a lot of games to play.
> I can't imagine the subsequent technology race between Intel, AMD, later 3Dfx, NVIDIA and ATI without that standardization

Before the x86 dominance, you'd have Motorola in this group, making 68K chips (or, maybe, 88K). Processors today would probably be as fast as they are, maybe faster because they wouldn't need to be compatible with binaries written 30 years ago.
They just wrote down $6.2 billion on their aQuantive purchase, so I wouldn't be too quick to say that...
This.

...is a plague of reddit and other internet forums, too ;)
Eigenfaces do not work very well for face recognition outside of constrained environments. (In fact, no algorithm can beat people even in images where the faces themselves have been cropped out.) See http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/lfw/results.html
HFS, I think it's like giving people the right to have guns, lots of potential for bad things to happen, but still a step forward to democracy.
If by "today" you mean "tomorrow".

I really hope this goes well. The Falcon 9 is still a pretty new rocket, and the Dragon is still a pretty new capsule. Give me five more good launches and I'll be able to watch without holding my breath.
Because it's a potent NMDA antagonist which blocks glutamate induced excitotoxicity.

Also see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NMDA_receptor_antagonist#Potent...
Keyboards and mice? That's what you're concerned about? That's a rounding error compared to the cost of engineering time and product development.

I don't abuse my equipment. But if I spilled something on my MBP, oh well, accidents happen. IT will replace it, probably with a Retina. There isn't any "stigma" about requesting equipment. Nor should there be. Your penny-pinching concerns seem a) quaint and b) short-sighted.
A look at my spam folder
Doesn't make much sense to me. What would prevent people from giving away 2 gifts,one of item one of money, or a giving away to a 3rd party as escrows?
It's not "Europe", it's parts of it. France is particularly bad I hear, supposedly paralysed by unions. In the UK things are much better because unions lost a lot of their power in the 80s under Thatcher.
Wow, this sounds like it came directly out of the ROWE playbook, http://www.gorowe.com/, something we practice at my job to much success.
This was my thought as well. I don't go to Thailand to buy an iPhone; when I buy one it is in the US and so naturally first-sale does apply.
I've built a fair number of medium-small sites with it and like it pretty well...I'm interested in your perspective with such a large project. Why do you think it's awfully designed?

I did just run into a pretty nasty and obscure bug. (That was the first though.)
I'm taking your defeatist attitude as a symptom of your condition so instead of grilling you for it, I'll offer some useful advice. Do yourself a favor and buy some Rhodiola Rosea, Lemon Balm, L-Phenylalanine, L-Tryptophan and play around with the dosages. Do yourself a bigger favor and start exercising, stop eating sugar and cut out all sources of caffeine. Depression is easy to treat without turning yourself into a zombie. Don't fall for the idiotic marketing prevalent in today's medical culture - they're trying to take your money, not give you health. You don't need to trade one thing for another - the human body is not a closed system and happiness is not a zero-sum game.
I don't understand how this article talks about the future of Google+ in the enterprise, yet it makes no mention of LinkedIn.
This is exactly the reason Bitcoin will see very stiff resistance -- it threatens the powers that be in quite possibly the most effective way, removing control from them.

Bankers hate BTC because it removes them as intermediaries between people and their money, statists hate it because it ruins their socialist dreams of generating funds on demand (printing money) and makes inflation virtually impossible to them.

Fiat currency would fall by the wayside in the most real sense, and that scares the hell out of them (or it will).